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You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Larry Ellison

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Larry Ellison
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 17
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Businessman
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
The Bronx
New York City
Lawrence Joseph Ellison
Lawrence Ellison
Lawrence J. Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Larry Ellison
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When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.
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I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.
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I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.
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The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
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Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.
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Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.
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What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.
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I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.
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In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.
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Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.
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There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.
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Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.
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If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.
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